IES 2006-07 Grant & Fellowship Recipients
Entering Graduates
Predissertation Fellowships
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS)
Entering Graduates
IES offers fellowships each year for outstanding UC entering graduate students
who demonstrate an interest in modern European studies. The nominating department
provides tuition and fee waivers for students who are selected. These fellowships
have attracted the finest students from across the country and have provided
incentive to both students and departments to focus on European studies. The
2006-07 recipients of the entering graduates fellowships are listed below:
Robin Ellis, UC Berkeley, German
Mark Huberty, UC Berkeley, Political Science
Melissa Swain, UC Berkeley, Italian Studies
Kurt Buhanan, UC Irvine, German
Christopher Drue, UC San Diego, Sociology
David Fouser, UC Irvine, History
Stephen Lazer, UC Davis, History
Thomas Soehl, UCLA, Sociology
Predissertation Fellowships
IES offers pre-dissertation support to UC graduate students who have advanced
to candidacy and are ready to write a dissertation proposal on a European topic.
Recipients of these funds may apply them to travel expenses related to a pre-dissertation
trip to Europe. This preliminary trip allows students to lay groundwork for
later field or archival research. The 2003-04 recipients of the predissertation
fellowships are listed below:
Thomas Burnett, UC Berkeley, History, “Extinction in German Natural
History, 1800-1830”
Katherine Hendy, UC Berkeley, Cultural Anthropology, “Illicit Communities:
Ecstasy Use and the Creation of an Underground Subculture”
Nicole Hynson, UC Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy & Management, “Evolutionary
and Ecological Implications of Mycorrhizal Mediated Carbon Transfer in the
Plant”
Asaf Kedar, UC Berkeley, Political Science, “Varieties of National
Socialism in Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914”
Jessica Lage, UC Berkeley, Geography, “Rural Land Transforma-tion
in Spain”
Abigail Martin, UC Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy & Management, “Examining
the Contested Global Governance of Intellectual Property Rights and its Impact
on Biodiversity Management through Predisseration Research of Key Policy
Initiatives in Europe”
Andrej Milivojevic, UC Berkeley, History, “Decentralization and Redistribution
in Socialist Yugoslavia”
Julian Saltman, UC Berkeley, History, “Imperial
Legions: Minority Regiments in the Palestine Theater, 1917-1919”
Jeffrey Wolf, UC Berkeley, History, “A Reevaluation of Gustav Fechner
and the Origins of Experimental Psychology”
Andreas Agocs, UC Davis, History, “Debates on Cultural Renewal in
Postwar Germany, 1945-1956”
Amy Alexander, UC Irvine, Political Science, “Gender Differences in
Legislative Attitudes and Behavior: Testing Theory and Evidence across Several
Western Democracies”
Sarah Bakker, UC Santa Cruz, Anthropology, “Dutch, Berber, and Maybe
Muslim?: Religious Talk and Ethnic Identification among the Amazigh Berber
in the Netherlands”
Henry Carnie, UC Irvine, History, “The Social Eye: The Mass-Observation
Experiments of the 1930s as Visual Anthropology”
John Corbally, UC Davis, History, “Asians, Caribbeans, and Irish in
Britian; Postwar Immigration from the Commonwealth”
Kevin Goldberg, UCLA, History, “German Viticulture and the Invention
of Modern Taste, 1867-1918”
Jessie Hewitt, UC Davis, History, “Serving France: Domestic Servants,
Class Identity, and the Transformation of the Intimate”
Ihan Anita Ip, UC Santa Barbara, Musicology, “Hamburg
Opera and its Criticism: 1678-1738”
Jordan Kraemer, UC Irvine, Anthropology, “Translocally Imagined Communities:
Digital Media and Youth in Contemporary Europe”
Ryan Zroka, UC San Diego, History, “The Will to Combat in German at
the End of the First World War”
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS)
The FLAS program is a highly competitive fellowship, funded by
the US Department of Education, and aims to ensure continued national competence
in modern foreign languages, and area and international studies. The 2006-07
recipients of the entering graduates fellowships are listed below:
Academic Year:
Philip Wolgin, YIddish
Paul Baginski, French
Benjamin Urwand, German
Jonathan Bean, Danish
Summer:
Benjamin Urward, German
Elizabeth Carter, French
